The Fox, Coulsdon Common - pub details
Address: Fox Lane, Coulsdon, Caterham, Surrey, CR3 5QS [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 12052) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Whyteleafe South (1.7 miles), Whyteleafe (1.8 miles), Upper Warlingham (1.8 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served
- Outside seating, Children allowed
Pub suggested by lout_from_the_lane on 10 Aug 2004
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> Current user rating: 2.7/10 (rated by 45 users)
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other pubs nearby:
Ladybird, Caterham (0.4 miles), Village Inn, Caterham (0.7 miles), Tudor Rose, Coulsdon (0.8 miles), Wattenden Arms, Kenley (0.9 miles), Clifton Arms, Caterham (0.9 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of the Fox, Coulsdon Common
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| It really is the service that lets this place down. Countless managers have run this place in the time I've been coming here and they can't all be be rubbish or wilfull so it must be the owners. The number of people I see walking out having got fed up waiting to be served is only increasing. The times I hear the staff tell punters that there is an hour (or whatever) to wait for food is only increasing. I don't know - I don't run pubs - but its a big place and it seems to me that its understaffed at peak times. The restaurant sits a load of people - is the kitchen staffed to deal with that capacity, does the menu have too many choices. Dunno. Would be very interesting to know how the owners view the endless stream of negative comment, perhaps their facebook page should link to Beerintheevening! That said, its score should be higher - the truly horrible Kenley Hotel has a higher score which is clearly wrong. Pipp-pip on_the_brightside - 14 Feb 2012 21:34 |
| For 24 years of my life I have lived in Caterham and for most of this time I have visit the fox on more than 100 occasions. After perseverance of the past few times I would like to say maybe I just picked a bad few days to visit the pub and try to eat. But after visiting on a day where there were virtually only 10 people in the pub and still received service this bad I will vow to never go to this pub again. After asking for food, the 'barman' tells me there not serving for another 20 minutes and then proceeds to serve other people. Fair enough so I go back up and when it's my turn to be served he then serves everyone else except me. Same old story, people wonder why pubs shut down and when people tell me the fox has, I don't even think I'll pretend to act surprised. RIP the fox, you've been a great pub in the past... Daveyrodnez - 5 Feb 2012 13:55 |
| Lovely location. Nothing else positive to say I'm afraid. Great pub if you like to practice waiting for long periods and picking hair out of food. If you need your patience tested, come along. A great pub wasted. dwinker - 15 Jan 2012 09:26 |
| Having been to this pub a couple of times in the past.The first couple of time having good food and service,on the second visit we were served smaller than normal portioned this was rectified by the manager who refunded our money for that perticular dish.Then on our last visit we were served our starter which was soup that was cold then had a 50minute wait before we chose to leave the main because of the wait,which when questioned was told it was because there was a party of twenty being served.With seating for aprox 100.I would recommend that if there is less than twenty in there you are ok as the food is resonable,however if there is more than twenty i would go elsewere as they obviously cant cope,and when the staff was questioned,it appeared they didn't really care that we were leaving. box - 7 Dec 2011 21:34 |
| Having walked into the pub, one couple were being served at the bar, there were no other people waiting to be served. Whilst we were wating for the barman to finish serving them a group of 3 others walked in, they were obviously known to the barman. Instead of seving us (we had waited about 5 mins by this point as the barman also had to answer the phone)he served the people who walked in after us. We did not say anything as we did not want to cause any bad feeling. Meanwhile, another person came to the bar and beyond our belief the barman was going to serve him instead of us. My husband then shouted over our order and the barman served us first. There was no apology from the barman, he did not say please or thank you - we did despite the terrible service! We came to eat at The Fox but after such diabolicle service we had our drink and left. I could understand if the bar was busy but there were only 2 other couples in the pub when we arrived and both of them were seated with a drink. Therefore I find it inexcusable that the barman ignored us to serve evidently 'regular' customers and not to use any manners. We were planning to have pre-dinner drinks followed by a 2 course meal with wine - thankfully we were made very unwelcome before spending our money which enabled us to eat at The Tudor Rose where great hospitality and good manners were displayed at all times. Our visit to The Fox was beyond 'very poor'!! becs25 - 2 Sep 2011 15:50 |
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